Mr Ken MacLeod, "Souls in Steel: How Science Fiction has Imagined AI"

From clanking Robots, through electronic brains, to emergent minds in the Internet, science fiction has imagined how artificial intelligence might influence, enrich, transcend or terminate human life. What do these imaginings tell us about artificial intelligences...and about our own?

Dr. David Fogel, "Evolutionary Computation: The Future of Machine Intelligence"

The development and testing of Blondie24, an evolutionary program that taught itself how to play draughts without human expertise, and its extension to a self-learning chess program, the first such program to defeat a nationally ranked master.

Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn, "Is there a Future for Robot Companions?"

Professor Alan Bundy, "Why Robots must be Relativists"

To sense the environment, make predictions, form plans and act, robots and other autonomous agents must form internal models of the world including modelling other agents. How can agents with different world models communicate with each other?